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Adapting to “Seattle on the Mediterranean”

July 4, 2015 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

With Seattle’s hot streak of weather in June, it was only a matter of time before someone tried to use it to make the case for “doing something” about climate change. Timothy Egan did just that in the July 3 New York Times, in which he pleads: “Before giving in to a future in which […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: climate change, global warming, New York Times, seattle

It’s not Ebola that scares us, it’s our government – or Bruni vs. Bruni

October 18, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

Frank Bruni wrote an Op-ed in the New York Times on October 14 entitled “Scarier Than Ebola” in which he argued that we should be more worried about things such as the flu, car crashes and skin cancer than Ebola. His argument immediately began to fall apart when I applied the lessons in logic I […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: CDC, Ebola, Frank Bruni, Government, New York Times, Obama

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I’m Nicholas, a marketing consultant and dad in Dallas, TX. I like to follow policy debates, chat about parenting and share stories. Read More…

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